Monday, 6 August 2012
This year’s Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival will be held between 25 and 28 August. Among the authors participating in the event are Anna Funder, Tim Bonyhady, Ita Buttrose, Elliot Perlman,...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Sydney’s Burwood Book Exchange, which first opened in 1986, will close on 8 September. The bookstore, which specialises in secondhand romance titles as well as special orders for new titles,...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The finalists for the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award for a published book in the mind, body, spirit genre have been announced, reports Booksellers NZ. The titles in the...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Screen Australia has approved investment for the second season of ABC television series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, the adaptation of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher books (A&U). The funding was part of a $20 million...

Monday, 30 July 2012
Hachette UK has announced that Paul Kenny will oversee its new sales office in Hong Kong in the new role of Southeast Asia sales and marketing manager. Kenny, who previously...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) has dropped its attempt to seize the profits made from former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks' memoir Guantanamo: My Journey (William Heinemann), concluding...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Writer and broadcaster Elmo Keep is a finalist in the Realise Your Dream Award, run by the British Council and designed to promote international creative collaboration. The award is given...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
The film adaptation of Charlotte Wood’s novel The Children (A&U) has received $750,000 funding from ScreenWest. The Children was shortlisted in the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) in 2008. The...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) has achieved its goal of $20,000 from crowd-funded pledges and the amount continues to rise with 27 days left in the campaign. The volunteer-led awards replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, then...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Ebook provider and retailer Kobo has officially launched its self-publishing platform, Kobo Writing Life. The platform is accessible to users in Australia and New Zealand and can be accessed here....

Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Penguin has announced it will launch a series of Lantern classic cookbooks in August ‘in the spirit of the immensely popular Penguin Modern Classics’, says Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs....

Tuesday, 17 July 2012
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) will travel interstate again this year to hold a mini-festival in partnership with the NSW Writers’ Centre. The one-day event will take place on 3...

Tuesday, 17 July 2012
The eighth annual Kimberley Writers Festival will be held in Kununurra, Western Australia, between 27 and 29 July. Among the writers participating in this year’s event are Amanda Curtin, Stephen...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of this year’s Glenfern writers’ studio fellowships. Ramona Koval, David Sornig and Libby Hart are the recipients of the Readings Glenfern Fellowships for Mid-Career...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Campus bookseller Co-op Bookshop has announced a new partnership with mobile phone company amaysim. The Co-op Bookshop said in a statement that the new partnership will offer Co-op members access...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
The Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers will hold the inaugural Melbourne Rare Book Week this month. The free event will take place between 19 and 29 July...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Melbourne’s RMIT University will host this year’s NonfictionNow conference in November as a result of a partnership between the university’s school of media and communications and the nonfiction writing program...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Express Media and Australian Poetry have announced a partnership to publish a first collection of poetry by one Victorian poet under the age of 25. The partnership is a continuation...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
The fifth annual conference of the Australian Association for Literature, ‘Literature and Censorship’, takes place in Canberra from today until Friday (11 to 13 July). The conference is hosted by...

Tuesday, 10 July 2012
The Book Grocer has opened a new store in Melbourne’s CBD. The store is located at 455 Bourke Street.

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The program for the 2012 Mildura Writers’ festival has been announced. This year’s festival will run from 19-22 July and continues the festival’s established tradition of events which showcase the...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced a number of changes to its board following this year’s festival in May. Annette Shun Wah, Peter FitzSimons and Tim Peach have finished...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Stuart Harrison has won the 2012 National Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for his book Forty-Six Square Metres Of Land Doesn't Normally Become A House (Thames and...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
In the lead up to its inaugural Independent Publishers’ Conference in November, the Small Press Network (SPUNC) is seeking presentations for the academic day of the conference on the topic of...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The New Zealand Government’s Trade and Enterprise department has released a new guide to educational book publishing in overseas markets. The guide provides information about the Canadian, Chinese, German, UK...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Screen Australia has announced funding for a number of apps, several of which are based on books. Bottersnikes and Gumbles ‘brings to life the hilarious animated stories about the evil...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
The inaugural Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival (SHWF) will be held in Bowral, NSW on 21-22 July. Authors speaking at the festival include Frank Moorhouse, Kirsten Tranter, Kate Forsyth, Sue Woolfe,...

Monday, 2 July 2012
The finalists for this year’s Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime for crime books written by Australian women, have been announced. This year 49 books are competing for awards...